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SUMMARY:Banned Together
LOCATION:Boulder City Library\, 701 Adams Blvd\, Boulder City\, NV 89005
DESCRIPTION:BANNED TOGETHER follows three students as they fight to reinsta
 te 97 books suddenly pulled from their school libraries. As they evolve fr
 om local to national activists\, they meet with banned authors\, politicia
 ns\, and the major players protecting the First Amendment of our Constitut
 ion. Woven throughout the story about the student activists include Congre
 ssman Jamie Raskin\; bestselling and banned authors like Juno Dawson\, Jod
 i Picoult\, Dr. Ibram X. Kendi\, Erika L. S&aacute\;nchez\, and Ellen Hopk
 ins\; First Amendment warriors like Jonathan Friedman from PEN America and
  Deborah Caldwell-Stone from the ALA's Office for Intellectual Freedom\; P
 rof. Justin Hansford\, the Executive Director of the Thurgood Marshall Civ
 il Rights Center at Howard University School of Law\; Olivia Little\, a se
 nior investigative researcher from Media Matters for America who's done in
 -depth reporting about Moms for Liberty since early 2021\; organizations f
 ighting on the front lines in Florida\; Maurice Cunningham\, author of "Da
 rk Money and the Politics of School Privatization"\; and IL Secretary of S
 tate Alexi Giannoulias who wrote the first anti-book-ban legislation in th
 e country&hellip\; to name just a few! \n Banned Books Week was launched i
 n 1982 in response to a sudden surge in the number of challenges to books 
 in libraries\, bookstores\, and schools. Held in the last week of Septembe
 r or first week of October\, the annual event highlights the value of free
  and open access to information and brings together the entire book commun
 ity &mdash\; librarians\, educators\, authors\, publishers\, booksellers\,
  and readers of all types &mdash\; in shared support of the freedom to see
 k and to express ideas. https://bannedbooksweek.org/\n\nDetails: https://v
 egaslocalshq.com/events/boulder-city/banned-together-2026-10-04-ce6c8af1
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